Getting comfortable with the "N" word

From AP:

"We have manufactured nukes for self-defense to cope with the Bush administration's ever more undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the (North)," the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

Nukes? Wow, they really must be feeling comfortable with the idea of having nuclear weapons to abbreviate it in official statement. Since Bush can't pronounce the word he should also consider adopting the abbreviated form.

I wonder if they meant Nikes...